Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-26

war cry: Let us die for or Queen,
Maria Theresa So, this morning,
realizing that the boy Of to-day is t.
be the ruler of the future, the popular
sovereign, | hold him before the Amer.
lean people to arouse their enthusiasm
in his behalf, and to evoke their oath
for bis defense, his education, and bis
sublime destiny.
III q parent, you will remember when
you were aroused to these great re-
sponsibilities, and when you found that
you had not done all required after you
had admired the tiny hands, and the
glossy hair, and the bright eyes that
lay in the cradle. You suddenly re-
membered that that hand would yet be
raised to bless the world with its bene-
diction, or to smite it with a curse. In
Ariosto's great poem there is a charac-
ter called
R%UGGIERO,
who has a shield Of insufferable splen-
dor, bat it is kept yelled, a V on GER
tain occasions, and when uncovered il
startled and overwhelmed its behclder,
who before had no suspicion Of its
brightness. My hope to-day il to I'M
cover the destiny of your child or stu
dent, about which you may have no
especial appreciation, and fash upon
you the splendor of its immortal ma
ture. Behold the shield and the sword
of its coming conflict!
| propose in this discourse to set
forth what | consider to be some of
the errors prevalent in the training of
children.
ERRORS IN TRAINING CHILDREN.
First: | remark that many err in
too great severity OF too great ~leniency
of family government. Between
parental tyranny and r~uinous laxative
ness OF discipline there is a medium.
Sometimes the father errs on one side,
ard the mother on the other side.
Good family government Is al I'M
portant. Anarchy and misrule in the
domestic circle is the forerunner Of
anarchy and misrule in the state. What
u repulsiye spectacle is a home without
order or discipline, disobedience and
impudence, and anger and falsehood
lifting their horrid front in the place
which should be consecrated TO all that
is holy, and peaceful and beautiful. In
the attempt TO avoid all this, and bring
the people under proper laws and reg
ulations, parents have sometimes car
ried themselves with great rigor. John
Howard who was merciful to the
prisoners and laZarettos, was merclless
in the treatment of his children. John
Milton knew everything but how to
train his family. Severe and unreasou-
able was he in his carriage towards
them. He made them read to HIM in
four or five languages, but would not
allow them to learn any of them, for
he said that one tongue was enough
for a N Their reading was
mechanical drudgery, when, if they
had understood the languages they
read, the employment of reading might
have been a luxury. No wonder his
children despised HIM, and stealthily
sold his books, and hoped for his
death. In all ages there has been need
of a society for prevention of cruelty to
children. When
BARBARA
was put to death by her father because
she had countermanded his order, and
had three windows put in a
room instead of two. this
cruel parent was a type
of many who have acted the Nero and
the Robespierre in the home circle.
The heart sickens at what you some
times see, even in families that pretend
to be christian perpetual scolding,
and hair-pulling, and ear-boxing, and
humping, and tault-finding, and teas
ing, until the children are vexed be-
yond bounds and growl in the sleeve,
and pout, and rebel, and VOW within
themselves that in after days they will
retaliate for the cruelties practiced.
Many a holde become as full of dispute
as was the home of John O'Groat, who
built his home at the most northerly
point in Great Britain. And tradition
says that the house had eight windows,
and eight doors, and u table of eight
sides, because he had eight children,
and the only way to keep them out Of
bitter quarrel vas to have a separate
appointment for each one of them.
CHILDREN ARE p TO BE ECHOES OF
THEIR PARENTS.
Safer in a Bethlehem manger among
cattle and camels with gentle Mary to
watch the little innocent than the mos.
extravagant nursery owe which Gods
star of peace Iever stood. The trap
per extinguishes the flames on the prai-
RE by fighting fire with fire, but you
cannot, with the fire of your own dis
position, put out the fire of a child's
disposition.
Yet we may rush to the other ex-
treme and rule children by too great
leniency. The surgeon is not unkind
because Notwithstanding the resistance
of his patient he goes straight on with
firm hand and unfaltering heart to take
of the gangreene. Nor Is the parent
less atfectionate and faithful because,
Notwithstanding all violent remonstran-
ces on the part Of the child. he with the
frmest discipline advance, to the cut
ting off of its evil incl atoms. The
Bible says: "Chasten ly son while
there is hone. and lpt not thv